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+ "With our libraries and packages set up, let's now zoom in on a particular area of interest. One major fire we can study was the tragic [Lytton Creek wildfire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytton_wildfire) which began on June 30th, 2021 and ravaged for several weeks (Lindsay & Dickson, 2021). The outcome left about 2,000 residents without a home as the fire burned down the entire village and killed two people in the process (Lindsay & Dickson, 2021).\n",
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+ "The cause of the fire stemmed from a recipe of extreme climate events which severely elevated the risk of natural disasters in the area. For starters, just the day before the wildfire started, Lytton set an all-time record of having the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada with a high of 49.6$^{\\circ}$ that day. Under those extreme drought conditions with winds travelling up to 71 km an hour that day, the fire spread incredibly fast leaving residents and firefighters with little time to prepare for the fire.\n",
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+ "To get a first-hand glance at the severity of the Lytton Creek wildfire, let's start by pulling images from the Sentinel-2 satellite. For the rest of this analysis, we'll use the following latitude and longitude coordinates of the old Lytton library as the central point of our satellite data, specify a 40 km radius for GOES satellites, and a time range between `2024-06-15` and `2024-07-15` so that we have a view of Lytton before and after the fire. With our Sentinel-2 data, the 40km radius won't matter as much as when we explore the images from the GOES satellites because, as we'll see shortly, it takes large snapshots of the areas below which covers large sections of land."
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